FROM
GIRLS TO GRRRLZ. Subtitle: A History of Women's Comics from Teens
to Zines. Here's your chance to see where all those ironic retro clip-arty
comics actually came from! And where Breakup Girl will now get more ideas
for her True Confessions captions ("I was a love gypsy!")! And
how those all evolved into wimmin's and grrrl's zines! With stunning color
reprints, Trina Robbins connects the, um, Little Dots that have filled in
girls' worlds for decades.

WHITE
GLOVES. Subtitle: Coming of Age with Hillary's Class--Wellesley
'69. Superimpose this book on the girl-comics history, and you'll see that
Hillary and Co. entered to "Get Your Ring Before Spring" and graduated
to "Suburban Subversion." Read this book to find out where they
went from there (Lady Justice?).

I BRAKE FOR FAIRIES. In Latoon, County Clare, Ireland, Eddie Lenihan
is working to protect a tree from demolition for a highway bypass. Why?
It is a fairy bush, he says, a meeting place for supernatural sprites; cut
it down and they will curse the road. Fabulously enough, there is, in fact,
precedent in Ireland for fairy-based highway rerouting.This whole thing
is way better, I say, than Midsummer Night's Dream (the movie, I mean).

THE
BOOK OF THE PENIS. A lively socio-cultural-medical-historical
volume about which I cannot write a blurb without a single double entendre,
so you'd better just read it yourselves.

FATHERS' DAY. The media image of Dad-in-the-Den-Knows-Best is
largely a thing of the past, according to a new study. In an art-imiates-life-imitates-art
sort of way, this is bad, says Don Eberly, chair of The
National Fatherhood Initiative: "At a time when children badly
need fathers ... the networks portray them as missing, confused, aloof,
or completely uninformed." If you ask me, we need more dads to get
their kids to watch less TV.

MIA HAMM. The Cammi Granato of soccer -- who's got a new book,
her own sneaker, and a bone marrow disease
foundation with her name on it -- will lead the US team's bid for the 1999
Women's World Cup. All that and N'Sync at tomorrow's opening ceremonies!

SENSUAL
CELIBACY. Subtitle: The Sexy Woman's Guide to Using Abstinence for
Recharging Your Spirit, Discovering Your Passions, and Achieving Greater
Intimacy in Your Next Relationship. I know what you're thinking: "Breakup
Girl, what if my abstinence is, um, enforced by other factors?" Right.
One option: use this book to "choose" rather than default to it.

SUPERBUTLERS. Britain's largest butler school is offering a new
course in "superbutlering"-- training Jeeves-to-bes in kickboxing,
helicoptering, evasive driving, and the like. Note to self: B-Day gift for
Betsy.

HIGH
FIVE. America's favorite bounty hunter -- call her Boba Fette --
is back! This time, Stephanie Plum
signs on as an intern to a Super Bounty Hunter Ranger and gets into various
scrapes involving theft, murder, and olive loaf bologna in the dark underbelly
of Trenton, New Jersey. All that and nothing to wear to the Mafia
wedding.

CHEATERS.
A chronicle of love, friendship, and lack thereof among LA buppies.
(Hey, did you know that author Eric Jerome Dickey launched this second career
after being "downsized" from a job in the aerospace industry.
Sometimes writing does take a rocket scientist. )

SHAG, v. The term will be added to the next version of The Encarta
World English Dictionary. In case you're wondering, "it's an offensive
term referring to sexual intercourse. Late 18th Century. Origin unknown."
(So no, it wasn't the first Austin.)

ST. 'NET. The Vatican is considering a move to create a patron
saint of the Internet; the frontrunner is rumored to be St Isidore of Seville
-- credited with creating the 20-volume encyclopedia considered to be the
world's first database -- who died 1,400 years ago. Can't wait for the rumble
between Isidore and St. Claire of Assisi, patron saint of TV.